a year after islamic state is run out of the iraqi city of mosul it still remains and the ruins we hear from a local resident about life after liberation are two bodies still down there and their feet bodies in that house behind us still inside the stench coming from this very strong truth and they getting sick because of this. a shaky cease fire is restored between hamas militants and israel after violent clashes on the gaza border raising fears of a full blown conflict in the region. and students at a university in england removed a famous poem by a british writer read your kipling from a campus small claiming he was a racist who stood against their ideals we asked people in london what they think about the movie. is a mother's time. and you've got to accept that that was

a time it should be acknowledged and it should be there open for discussion but the for the each of these sends. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our to h.q. in moscow thanks for tuning in. it's been a year since the iraqi city of mosul was fully liberated from islamic state the city had been the terror group's de facto capital in the country for nearly three years our video agency visited the city and spoke to a local resident. there are two bodies still down there and there are food more bodies in that house behind us there's still inside the stench coming from them is very strong our children are getting sick because of this. message said in a fog there was six of us my daughter was killed i lived in that house after the

airstrikes i just couldn't save there anymore. i don't know them. they said we're not going to treat her priority is the finances we can give her an injection so she dies immediately but of her to die at home the u.s. led coalition air strikes left the city of mosul in ruins and one year on it still remains devastated here's a look back at how the battle of mosul unfolded. iraqi security forces launch a counterattack to liberate mosul from iceland also known as stage. this operation to regain control of iraq's second largest city will likely continue for weeks possibly long. term.

stream a concern for the safety of up to one point five million people living in mosul who may be impacted by military or bridges to retake the city for once. the fetal position it's called. and we need to put the city or the. you cannot just fire at everybody everybody in the city you have to be very careful john of again i would just have an image of a close up the no mind of the satellite the magazine and the mastermind imagine the people with. magic and how the us this is

a classic street in the liberated parts of mosul lifeless devastated it all spittle empty. wrists countless bodies buried and they're all this rubble and no one knows how long it'll take to get to the wall of war rubble the buildings and even that it's mixed with unexploded bombs and decaying bodies molotov. she got. dumped about it. could have. to kill you. are a fact of life if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at

a price and avoidable part of war. we spoke to the middle east operations manager for doctors without borders says people are returning to find death everywhere in the city i think it will be unfair to say that nothing has changed but what we what we called for is that the change should happen more quickly or we see the level of destruction that happened a year ago is still very visible if an infrastructure hasn't been repaired or spills haven't been reopened yet there's a lack of water of there's a lack of electricity going back and potentially finding their bodies in your house in your street i mean that's that's george appears very dangerous stating because once again you're confronted to it's all those horrible things that happened in mosul increasing number of people return but there's no access to to health care

there's no for example emergency rooms there's enough surgical facilities there's not enough hospital beds and yet there are still people that are good wounded from . collapsing houses. the horror of war can also be seen in the syrian city of raka the bodies of more than one thousand two hundred civilians the majority of them women and children have been discovered in three mass graves there it's claimed most were killed when the u.s. led coalition bombed the area firing nearly thirty thousand rounds and launching thousands of air strikes during the course of a few months down the as the details. tobar will mark exactly one year since i saw defeat in their caliphate self-proclaimed capital rocker and months after the u.s. coalition's victory restored or freed of torment the syrian city is still not these are the latest pictures from one of three recently discovered mars graves

these burial sites contain more than a thousand bodies there are three hundred to four hundred bodies in this mass grave three to four catacombs are completely full of dead bodies and grief and despair still has the syrian city reeling as relatives time and time again have to identify their loved ones excavated the body of only one of my sisters the other four remain missing and unaware of the birth as they were buried by my uncle now we're looking for the uncle difficult to find them in the jurors have bodies or civilians mostly women and children of polish military in work twenty four hours a day whether it's a civilian or a fighter we give the body a number well this number is over a thousand now and that's just in the three recently discovered mass graves took a little bit of modern tools we just rely on basic information families help us identify the civilians we identify a lot of bodies from because it doesn't disintegrate it's

a race against time and they're ready to earn their more time passes the harder it is to identify the bodies as they rot in the ground nameless and mass graves of raka highlight not only i solved monstrosity but also what rights groups call america's denial in its responsibility for the city's tragedy the coalition has acknowledged a mere twenty three civilian deaths resulting from the more than thirty thousand artillery rounds and several thousand strikes it launched into rock a city the blustery denials a contradicted. by the lived reality of the hundreds of civilians there even contradicted by their own partners on the ground looking at these pictures it's hard to see any real recovery from the post-war horror at all it's even difficult to tell them apart and just in case these were taking only a couple of months ago and these are back from two thousand and seventeen u.s.

led forces came pounded the city with some thirty thousand dollar tillery rounds proclaim victory and then washington apparently chose to simply forget rocca the u.s. coalition caused the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water supply and clearing the rubble of the mess that definitely can wash out of that we were directly targeted by the coalition the recognizance craft filmed us it was a low altitude it was very clear there were no terrorists in your area but there were kids playing in the streets and we were collecting water and i knew that of that i knew that if the aircraft bomb using phosphorus it targets everyone it is not hidden i still the coalition is boman brendan lee if you're sitting at home a bomb may come down on you there are houses that collapsed on their residence and they couldn't get out all this happened because of the aircraft the city decayed bodies decomposed there's even no estimates on how many movements graves are still

to be found houses of people who were killed during the battle to retake the city. many were buried as to leave but also many remain in the rubble or at least in mass graves each one has to be dozens to hundreds of bodies of this green yard to make such as to beaches but that's what we know for years are struggling to cope with the logistical challenges because there are many of the gated to conduct examinations because the mines around there it is clear from what we have seen on the ground that they are working to exhibit bodies. for more critical. births until someone answers the please of rockers citizens they must live a mood rubble and stench the stench of decomposing flesh. after a recent spike in violence on the gaza border the militant group hamas says it has agreed to a cease fire with israel violence escalated after an israeli soldier was killed

that prompted a series of airstrikes on hamas positions and there have been fears of all out confrontation. explains there isn't an easy calm that has descended along the israel gaza border that ceasefire went into effect at midnight and we have heard from the israeli army that civilians who live along the israel gaza border can return to normal routine hearing the same message from her must go to person who says that they have agreed to return to the era of calm between israel and the palestinian factions it follows a night of heavy air strikes conducted by the israeli air force over gaza they say they hit some sixty targets while at the same time three projectiles were fired at israel by palestinian militants and a friday deadline given by israel to have months in which it said that all awesome kites that were flown into israel had to cease came and went with those kites israel says that its actions were merely telling a creek and it holds hamas responsible the idea of. the whole store activity is

treated by hamas throughout the last month with great severity hamas choose to the security situation and move the consequences for its actions last night strikes were the worst we've seen since the two thousand and fourteen will between israel and hamas in that war more than two thousand palestinians were killed and seventy three israelis now there was an israeli airstrike a heavy israeli airstrike earlier in the week we are hearing from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that he will continue to strike back at her mass during the sabbath. hard our policy is clear when anyone seeks to harm us we will strike back with great force this is just the second ceasefire in some six days so of course the question is then asked whether or not it will hold egypt and the united nations broken ceasefires and what we have heard from the united nations is that a massive full scale war was averted tensions on the ground however the main tense

people are an easy and the question of course is if and when they'll be and have a showdown when i ask people here that question most people believe they will be a showdown is just a question of when. political commentator amir oren and the former director of a palestinian civil rights organization most an abba ramadan share their views on the recent conflict hundreds of palestinians if you accumulate the numbers have either died or been injured at the demonstrations but this is not happened because israel has used force. to the contrary israel only reacted and israel tried to work the entire border quiet it is not the in its interest to try and rebuild. a number of but the scene and war show did differ on that is that you this sort of does without any dangers. from them to those are

you disorders they are just getting slogans that is being voices and asking the international community over to brush up to do and that she'd get them of movement and commodities to the buddhist you know to live as not people. you might be and live in the. media outlet funded by the u.s. government has depleted a series of ads placed on facebook targeting american audiences it comes after radio liberty was outed for potentially violating u.s. laws meant to shield citizens from domestic propaganda and picks up the story. now it turns out that one news outlet has been forced to remove its political ads from facebook was the u.s. government's own radio free europe aka radio liberty here's an extract from their mission statement which of course you can find on their web site which ends in dot gov. a mission is to promote democratic values and institutions by reporting the

news in countries where free press is banned by the government who are not fully established journalists provide what many people cannot get locally on since that news responsible discussion an open debate perhaps they consider the united states to be one of those countries that doesn't have a free press after all the ads were specifically targeted at americans now facebook says the ads were not political which is rather interesting as they were specifically related to recent controversies regarding trump and the nato. sixty one percent of the surveyed population in twelve countries view nato favorably it's actually illegal for federally funded news outlets under the umbrella of the broadcast board of governors to direct their content at an american audience the only exception is by special request and there was none in the case of radio liberty after new york times journalists raised a red flag the board of governors deleted the ads none of the b.b. g.

now where should be distributing or promoting our content massacree in order to develop or grow domestic audiences but why would facebook allow ads about nato to begin with this is just after facebook has imposed strict rules regarding commercials with political content in the united states r.t. materials frequently banned and that even when it's not directed an american audience. and issue ads on facebook and instagram in the u.s. must be clearly labeled including a paid for by disclosure from the advertiser at the top of the ad it turns out that the rules about what constitutes a political ad are pretty big as far as facebook is concerned any r.t. news related to the usa is a political advert meanwhile a commercial specifically talking about how everyone loves nato is not now russian scholar shonda laurie recently tried to promote in an interview about his recently

published compendium of coverage of donald trump from russian magazines and newspapers face book shut him down for his book one to prove my for this book cost apparently one of the russian press thinks of trump is dangerous information there's a double standard if you want to break the rules to help defend freedom ok which is which is really not possible it's illogical they've constantly lived in this state of a false reality where. it's ok to propagandize and to blanket the rest of the world with a cia funded message but it's not ok for russia to finance or to partially even finance a great television network that's competitive with the b.b.c. for news and information why is that not ok all this talk about fake news and propaganda has put the us political establishment and tech giants like facebook in

a pretty difficult spot basically they've been reduced to saying we can't promote it if we don't agree with it caleb often r.t. new york. we have asked facebook in the broadcasting board of governors to comment on the case so far they have chosen not to respond. coming up in the program students at a university in england remove a poem from a campus building describing author rudyard kipling as a racist the details on that story and more after a quick break. what politicians do you suppose to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. some want to listen. to the right person this is like the three of you that. are still

always at the right. place. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is on all sides clearly dramatic development is only going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. welcome back appalled by british writer rudyard kipling has been removed by students at manchester university in the northwest of england they claim the author

of his best known for writing the jungle book was racist the poem if that was penned in one thousand nine was displayed in a newly renovated campus building but was quickly criticised by members of the student union who said they should have been consulted beforehand they say kipling's sought to legitimize the british empire presence in india and dehumanised people of color a verse from civil rights activist maya angelou still i rise has now replaced the poem we asked people moaning about the students actions. this is it is a man of his time. and you've got to accept that that was his time today maybe don't really do it to say so you just are still agree with it's. free speech on the window if you do that's a trick question i'm going to be into it and not kind of thing but to treat the deporter that bundle is something that's really bad to me any case and i don't agree with defacing i think there are other ways of protest from your point i think

when we're looking back on history and judging people from the framework that they existed in it's a little bit different i think. everything in its heart and period is significant in its own right. you know we can look at those and different views and attitudes now i think we can learn a little bit from that you know that it was a bad thing to do you know it's not right now but still you know it's people doing the past i don't think that we should disregard the most people that watch because of an opinion they have the actually i think they're being many great artists also in just museums been fired missile mistake and fly problem must take people in their private clothes but that doesn't necessarily mean that there are going to be that values but it also can mean that it should be acknowledged and it should be they're open for discussion but the fleet shouldn't be censored. kipling is of course not the only author whose work has been criticized recently here are a few of them.

were the western material achievement and progress made no dent on the rounded sleep of china. wants to forgive me for all of my friends without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us like this billion open of the horse a symbol fight. there is a trait in the jewish character that does provoke animosity maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non jews hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason. lets in the jew and the jews did your empire and you yourselves out judah jews and the big jew has received every nation is.

after the white house announced it's inviting president putin to washington the media is still trying to come to terms with donald trump style of diplomacy by barker breaks down what's being dubbed the worst week for trump's foreign policy. the u.s. president has upset everyone because she says risked it doesn't do claim to see like this was. true for nord one of the rules of diplomacy on his whistle stop tour of europe went off piste and told the truth don't worry you threw in a friend who used to it was an astonishing performance he managed to piss european allies and then in the interests of equality he desired citizens to diplomacy is the ruling in someone's face but nicely uses a method not found in any textbook he sobered up opponents and allies with a stream of clearly. finishing the most with

a laser going did. that last one and that's the most neater was the process to take a truthful here's the e.u.'s sticking washington with the bill of defending europe well nato members didn't like hearing that said out loud you see they prefer diplomatically considered criticism which they can diplomatically ignore next the diplomatic headed to britain where trumpeted already accepted the nation in advance by suggesting that the u.k. was in a spot of bragg's it in joost political turmoil. he politicians well the ones on dealing with all the turmoil that is then trump wanted and face to face in helsinki and a mainstream america exploded let me see those guys come on it's not a cold war anymore but one was called a traitor and he's a disgrace for funny cause to doubt on the conclusion by the american intelligence

services that russia meddled in the us elections. and in pisa a disgrace. he said the error was wrong. the day almost to the. he says he actually meant to say the exact opposite donald's desperate backtracking was the first sign of genuine diplomacy he chose so much truth bomb did trump a drop in the presence of he said he suggested the world's two largest nuclear powers should try to get a long cold mr president do you know nothing. that's a wrap up of the day's top news for this hour but don't forget you can find us on all of your favorite social media sites or head to our to dot com for the details on all of those stories and more thanks for turning out.

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in the middle of the sixty's there were thirteen million students enrolled in higher education in two thousand and fifteen there were two hundred million in less than fifteen years there are expected to be four hundred million to. hold. while the demand keeps growing university tuition fees skyrocket the world over the cost of education is high increasing. their. work harder is more. i don't understand how can a school be a scam. in the name of so-called economic pragmatism and as a result of international competition universities are turning into huge money

making machines. that all my family members went to university i think i wanted to be i wanted to be got one. from shanghai to new york to berlin countries around the world reflect trying different moves each remodelling its system in its own way but at what price and who profits from it. at the starting point of our story which begins at the end of the ninety's. at that time you have this financial izing itself all the while expanding many intellectuals european university presidents and expert groups engage in a vast reflection on how to build a more complete more ambitious europe. how to strengthen its intellectual

scientific and technological influence. what is the secret of the united states and its economic power. the answer lies in higher education and research. around that has become undeniably strategic. we're with. at the end of the twentieth century american universities prevail andrew europe is afraid afraid of finding itself on the sidelines it needs a strategy and so european gauges in a series of reforms to make its higher education more competitive so it can serve europe's economy its productivity its job market and its liberal project.